Giles Coren reviews Anglo, London EC1

‘While I am back on posh food, my heart did sink at seven courses. But it is top-hole’

In case you have ever thought about going for a curry on London’s Brick Lane on the basis that ten million students and tourists can’t be wrong, allow me to assert that indeed they can be, and usually are. And then let me tell you what happened to me when I visited a Brick Lane curry house myself last week.

It was the first time I had been back to Brick Lane since my only other visit 25 years ago, which was when I initially formulated Coren’s First Law of Dining, which states that in the kind of godforsaken places where waiters stand on the street in front of restaurants begging you to go in and eat, the quality of the food inside will be